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On this page, I have often called for moderate Muslims to stand up to extremist Islamists. In a recent interview with Al Jazeera, Dr. Wafa Sultan, a Syrian-American psychiatrist, criticized nutty Muslim clerics, holy warriors and political leaders who she believes have distorted the teachings of Muhammad and the Koran for 14 centuries.
"I believe our people are hostages to our own beliefs and teachings," she said in an interview this week in her home in a Los Angeles suburb. "Knowledge has released me from this backward thinking. Somebody has to help free the Muslim people from these wrong beliefs."
Perhaps her most provocative words on Al Jazeera were those comparing how the Jews and Muslims have reacted to adversity. Speaking of the Holocaust, she said, "The Jews have come from the tragedy and forced the world to respect them, with their knowledge, not with their terror; with their work, not with their crying and yelling."
She went on, "We have not seen a single Jew blow himself up in a German restaurant. We have not seen a single Jew destroy a church. We have not seen a single Jew protest by killing people."
She concluded, "Only the Muslims defend their beliefs by burning down churches, killing people and destroying embassies. This path will not yield any results. The Muslims must ask themselves what they can do for humankind, before they demand that humankind respect them."
Predictably, this brave woman is getting death threats from terrorists who don't want to hear her important message. Ms. Sultan is a genuine hero who has spoken out and put her life at risk to speak the truth.
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One might interchange her comments with what Christians are willing to do to gay people...and you see what ANY kind of blind religious belief will do.
I figure, once anyone has become a victim of violence, has no right to marriage, family or children...or equal freedom and protections based on your belief...the belief must go or be seriously restricted to grounds away from the free public. That goes for Muslims and Christians too.
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